All people who’s anyone within the hackerama has a driver – the top hack’s time is way too priceless to need to be worrying about little-people issues like cease lights, discovering a parking house, and many others.
Doesn’t matter when you’re elected or appointed, any hack value his six-figure pension has some flunky ferrying him round from one phony-baloney assembly to a different, all day lengthy.
Am I proper, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox?
For some time after Cox was appointed by Mayor Michelle Wu, his driver was Officer Craig D.D. Jones. They return a good distance, to the outdated days within the gang unit.
One factor a payroll patriot at all times needs in a driver is any person he can belief. For instance, former Mayor Marty Walsh used a feminine cousin of his who was on the job.
In keeping with the BPD, Jones is not Cox’s driver. Whereas he was, Jones was assigned to the DPU – the Dignitary Safety Unit. I hope Jones handled the dignitaries with extra, uh, dignity than he did with many non-dignitaries he interacted with.
I requested Jones’ Inner Affairs Officer Resume, and bought again 16 pages of reported incidents. Many weren’t “sustained,” as is the customized of the BPD when one in all their very own is accused, of something.
How about this sustained incident, from August 2024:
“Officer Jones reported to Sgt. Kevin Swan who knowledgeable Supt. Dottin on Aug. 24 that his Division Firearm was both misplaced or stolen.”
Wow! I believed shedding weapons was extra of a practice with the State Police, or the Canton PD. And by the best way, wasn’t Kevin Swan a driver for Mayor Mumbles Menino again within the day?
Officer Jones appears to have a mood, at the least when he’s not coping with dignitaries within the Dignitary Safety Unit. Right here’s an unsustained allegation from 1998, that on Cheney Road he confronted a lady and advised her “Simply shut the bleep up bitch and transfer again.”
A few months later, Jones allegedly noticed her leaving what was then the Fleet Heart “and when he noticed her he said in a loud voice, ‘Hey look, there’s that Cheney Road HO.’… she states that PO Jones saved screaming at her and swearing and calling her a bleeping whore and many others.”
Right here’s one from 2000 that was sustained – conduct unbecoming, for his conduct at an outdated Bickford’s on Gallivan Boulevard in Dorchester.
“He initiated a confrontation with a waitress and a supervisor. A videotape of the confrontation exhibits Craig Jones pushing the supervisor with both his hand or chest. The witness states that Craig Jones was abusive and aggressive.”
Verify this one out from July 2007, sustained, with a 10-day suspension, 4 days to serve. It concerned a dispute over, what else, a paid element for O’Connell Building.
“Mr. O’Connell states that P.O. Jones pounded on the facet of his m/v and screamed at him, ‘You’re ripping me off’ when the P.O. observed the time on the element card. Mr. O’Connell felt threatened by the P.O.’s actions and believed that it was uncalled for.”
In 2016, an “oral reprimand” from Capt. Fong over, once more, a paid element. This time it was a BPD sergeant named Glardina who was supervising the element. Jones was a no-show and Glardina known as one other officer. In keeping with the incident report, Jones flipped out when he heard he’d misplaced his 4 hours of gravy.
What follows is the account of the BPD sergeant in regards to the Commissioner’s future driver:
“Officer Jones grew to become agitated, abusive, yelling and screaming at me calling me ‘an bleep’ and stating ‘You’ll get yours.’ Throughout this complete ordeal, I used to be sitting in my cruiser. Off. Jones then proceeded to my driver’s facet door flailing his arms at me in a crazed method. Throughout this time, I grew to become terrified of my security and locked myself in my cruiser….”
Right here’s one other sustained cost from 2008, relationship again to a 2004 incident involving a civilian who was pulled over by two plainclothes cops, one in all whom advised him “Get the bleep out the automotive.”
The civilian says he was pulled out of his car, searched and punched within the face.
“Complainant said he had $120 in his pocket previous to the officer looking him and the cash was lacking when the complainant bought him. Complainant said the black officer repeatedly swore at him through the cease.”
Listed here are a couple of extra of the complaints towards Craig Jones, from totally different individuals, most of them unsustained:
“(In 2001) Mr. Belgrove states PO Jones known as him a ‘Bitch Faggot’ and PO Jones struck Mr. Belgrove a number of occasions together with his ‘Balled Fist.’…. (In 2005) Officer Jones threatened to beat him up…. (In 2006) Officer Jones swore at him and said a number of occasions, “Give me your bleeping license and bleeping registration.’… Officer Jones spit in his face….
“(In 2007 at Downtown Crossing) P.O. Jones approached him and poked him within the face whereas telling him to ‘Shut the bleep up’… (In 2013 on Warrenton Road Jones) got here towards my automotive began yelling to some extent my face was coated together with his saliva ‘Who the bleep you assume you might be, give me your bleeping license’… he got here towards my automotive once more stubborn me out and spat proper on my face.
“(In 2019 at Stuart and Tremont Streets) a black male yelled out the automotive window, ‘What the bleep are you doing? You attempting to chop me off?’…. (In 2015 complainant) said that the Officer swore at him and shoved him towards a grate….”
In 2017, a lady known as Inner Affairs to complain that Jones “has been harassing her, stalking her, giving out her telephone quantity to different individuals, and harassing her by way of Fb and thru Instagram, through the use of ‘pretend profiles.’”
Does it appear odd that Commissioner Cox would one way or the other decide this man, regardless of how lengthy he’d identified him, to be his driver? Is that this actually the man the Comish wished to be hanging with all day lengthy?
It typically looks like Cox has a smooth spot for cops who’ve… issues, let’s assume. Or at the least a sure type of cop….
In case you had been questioning, Craig Jones is licensed by the MA POST Fee. The alleged watchdogs haven’t any issues with any of the above. They by no means do. And also you’re not stunned, are you?
Overlook it Jake, it’s Massachusetts.
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